The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology A Selection of the 2004 Shortlist

by Webb, Phyllis

• ISBN13: 9780887846991
• ISBN10: 0887846998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press

Summary

The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book.Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

Table of Contents

Preface, by Phyllis Webb	ix
International Finalists
Suji Kwock Kim: Notes from the Divided Country
Generation	5	(4)
Borderlands	9	(1)
Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers	10	(4)
The Couple Next Door	14	(2)
Skins	16	(3)
David Kirby: The Ha-Ha
Americans in Italy	19	(4)
The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart	23	(2)
Borges at the Northside Rotary	25	(4)
The Ha-Ha, Part II: I Cry My Heart, Antonio	29	(6)
August Kleinzahler: The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep	35	(1)
The Old Poet, Dying	36	(4)
A History of Western Music: Chapter 11	40	(4)
Christmas in Chinatown	44	(3)
Louis Simpson: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
American Poetry	47	(1)
A Friend of the Family	48	(6)
Numbers and Dust	54	(2)
The Unwritten Poem	56	(1)
White Oxen	57	(10)
Canadian Finalists
Di Brandt: Now You Care
1 and 2 from Zone: [le Détroit] 63
A modest proposal	67	(1)
"Cat in high heels,..." from Heart	68	(1)
"Don't laugh when I confess..." from Heart	69	(1)
after Jeffrey Eugenides from Heart	70	(1)
Exhibition notes	71	(2)
The poets reflect on their craft	73	(4)
Leslie Greentree: go-go dancing for Elvis
sister from the future	77	(1)
go-go dancing for Elvis	78	(2)
shades of Linda Lee	80	(1)
once and a half	81	(1)
being Bogey	82	(1)
"if I was a gate"	83	(3)
New Orleans	86	(5)
Anne Simpson: Loop
The Triumph of Death from Seven Paintings by Brueghel	91	(1)
Lot's Wife	92	(2)
Carpets	94	(1)
Ordinary Lives, Embellished	95	(3)
The Body Tattoo of World History	98	(3)
About the Poets	101	(4)
Acknowledgements	105